Time's List of the 100 Best Novels


Time's List of the 100 Best Novels is an unranked list of the 100 best novels published in the English language between 1923 and 2010. The list was compiled by Time Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo.
The list includes only novels published between 1923 and 2010. As a result, some notable 20th-century novels, such as Ulysses by James Joyce, were ineligible for inclusion.
A list of the ten best graphic novels of the period was subsequently published as a supplement to the list. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons appears on both the 100 Best Novels and 10 Best Graphic Novels lists, giving the combined lists a total of 109 entries.

List

TitleAuthorYear
The Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow1953
All the King’s MenRobert Penn Warren1946
American PastoralPhilip Roth1997
An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell1946
Appointment in SamarraJohn O'Hara1934
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.Judy Blume1970
The AssistantBernard Malamud1957
At Swim-Two-BirdsFlann O'Brien1938
AtonementIan McEwan2002
BelovedToni Morrison1987
The Berlin StoriesChristopher Isherwood1946
The Big SleepRaymond Chandler1939
The Blind AssassinMargaret Atwood2000
Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy1986
Brideshead RevisitedEvelyn Waugh1946
The Bridge of San Luis ReyThornton Wilder1927
Call It SleepHenry Roth1935
Catch-22Joseph Heller1961
The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger1951
A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess1963
The Confessions of Nat TurnerWilliam Styron1967
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen2001
The Crying of Lot 49Thomas Pynchon1966
A Dance to the Music of TimeAnthony Powell1951
The Day of the LocustNathanael West1939
Death Comes for the ArchbishopWilla Cather1927
A Death in the FamilyJames Agee1958
The Death of the HeartElizabeth Bowen1958
DeliveranceJames Dickey1970
Dog SoldiersRobert Stone1974
FalconerJohn Cheever1977
The French Lieutenant's WomanJohn Fowles1969
The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing1962
Go Tell It on the MountainJames Baldwin1953
Gone with the WindMargaret Mitchell1936
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939
Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon1973
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald1925
A Handful of DustEvelyn Waugh1934
The Heart Is a Lonely HunterCarson McCullers1940
The Heart of the MatterGraham Greene1948
HerzogSaul Bellow1964
HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson1981
A House for Mr. BiswasV.S. Naipaul1962
I, ClaudiusRobert Graves1934
Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace1996
Invisible ManRalph Ellison1952
Light in AugustWilliam Faulkner1932
The Lion, The Witch and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis1950
LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955
Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding1954
The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien1954
LovingHenry Green1945
Lucky JimKingsley Amis1954
The Man Who Loved ChildrenChristina Stead1940
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981
MoneyMartin Amis1984
The MoviegoerWalker Percy1961
Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf1925
Naked LunchWilliam Burroughs1959
Native SonRichard Wright1940
NeuromancerWilliam Gibson1984
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro2005
1984George Orwell1948
On the RoadJack Kerouac1957
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey1962
The Painted BirdJerzy Kosinski1965
Pale FireVladimir Nabokov1962
A Passage to IndiaE.M. Forster1924
Play It as It LaysJoan Didion1970
Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth1969
PossessionA.S. Byatt1990
The Power and the GloryGraham Greene1939
The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark1961
Rabbit, RunJohn Updike1960
RagtimeE.L. Doctorow1975
The RecognitionsWilliam Gaddis1955
Red HarvestDashiell Hammett1929
Revolutionary RoadRichard Yates1961
The Sheltering SkyPaul Bowles1949
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut1969
Snow CrashNeal Stephenson1992
The Sot-Weed FactorJohn Barth1960
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929
The SportswriterRichard Ford1986
The Spy Who Came in From the ColdJohn le Carré1964
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926
Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston1937
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1959
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee1960
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1929
Tropic of CancerHenry Miller1934
UbikPhilip K. Dick1969
Under the NetIris Murdoch1954
Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry1947
WatchmenAlan Moore and Dave Gibbons1986
White NoiseDon DeLillo1985
White TeethZadie Smith2000
Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys1966